Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach

by Margaret Scotford Archer and Margaret S. Archer

Book Overview

Building on her seminal contribution to social theory in Culture and Agency, in this 1995 book Margaret Archer develops her morphogenetic approach, applying it to the problem of structure and agency. Since structure and agency constitute different levels of stratified social reality, each possesses distinctive emergent properties which are real and causally efficacious but irreducible to one another. The problem, therefore, is shown to be how to link...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521484421
• ISBN13: 9780521484428
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"